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Re: [PHP] safe mode bug ?



On So, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:36:13 +0200, Robert Hensel <robert@hensel.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I came upon a strange problem when trying to list directory's in safe 
> mode as a normal user. Of course I expected this not to work, because 
> safe_mode disables the possibility of reading files that not belong to 
> the owner of the PHP-file. However, it does not seem to check for 
> directory ownerships. (debian stable, PHP4.1.2). PHP does give a warning 
> about safe_mode (as seen below) but then nicely lists the directory :(
> This means any user can just browse through any dir. on my system. PHP 
> obviously still obeys UNIX file permissions so i could tighten up those, 
> and enable basedir restrictions and stuff, but it looks to me that this 
> is just a (major) bug ?

Hello,


it is widely known that safe_mode is not really safe.

You might want to restrict access with open_basedir .


The most secure solution is still to install php's cgi executable in an
suexec environment.




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